Rudy and the Sox

True, Yankees fans don't hate the Red Sox the way Red Sox fans hate the Yankees. (Until the Sox won the World Series a few years ago, people said the Yankees-Red Sox rivalry was like the Princeton-Cornell rivalry, of which only people at Cornell were aware.) Still, this is an eye-popping bit of political opportunism:

In baseball-crazed Boston, Mr. Giuliani, a die-hard Yankees fan who often wears a Navy Yankees jacket to games, said he was backing the Boston Red Sox to win the World Series. "I'm rooting for the Red Sox in the World Series. I'm not saying that just because I'm in Massachusetts," Mr. Giuliani said in comments likely to reverberate over the airwaves in New Hampshire, a center of fanatical Red Sox support. "I'm an American League fan. I go with the American League team maybe with the exception of the Mets because of my loyalty to New York." Mr. Giuliani's comments were in contrast to a slogan often seen on t-shirts throughout New England, "my favorite team is the Red Sox … and whoever is playing the Yankees."

In that spirit, Mr. Fehrnstrom said, "if Colorado wants Mayor Giuliani to root for the Rockies, they're going to have to move their primary up."

If Giuliani and Hillary Clinton win their respective primaries, we'll have a fight between the fake Red Sox fan and the fake Yankees fan. My opinion of Ron Paul would improve dramatically if he came out in support of a team that didn't use public money to build its stadium, if such a team exists.

Let me assure you, in the unlikely event that I become a serious contender for Prime Minister of Canada, that I will never under any circumstances say I'm rooting for the Montreal Canadiens.

Question for baseball fans: do any of you really cheer for the American League or National League, depending on where your team plays? When Super Bowl time comes around, I don't cheer for the NFC just because the Bears are an NFC team.

Damian P.

Posted by damian at October 24, 2007 09:06 AM